Oana Lucia Dimitriu was born in Bucharest, Romania in 1975 and graduated from the Romanian University in 1999 in the Faculty of Philosophy. Since then she has been working as a bibliographer in the Manuscripts, Rare Books, Correspondence and Documents Department of the Library of the Romanian Academy. She works mainly on the correspondence of the Romanian cultural personalities of the 18th and 19th centuries, and has published a number of articles in that field. She has also continued her studies with postgraduate courses in Poland in 2001-2002 and Bucharest in 2007-2008.